<h1 style="margin-bottom: 0">Welcome to Ballot-Box</h1>
<div style="margin-left: 2em"><i>Your election manager on the web</i></div>

<p><b>Sorry, development on ballot-box has stopped for lack of interest.</b>

<p>Using Ballot-Box you can easily and securely organize an election
for your membership organization.  Using our secure server setup,
anonymity of ballots is guaranteed.

<p>Here's how it works: after logging in, you create an election for
your organization.  You can specify an election title, a subtitle, and
an additional paragraph of text explaining the purpose for your
election.  You then change the state of your election to 'Preview' and
download our handy open source
<a href="http://ballot-box.googlecode.com/hg/mailer.py">mail merge
script</a> that sends each member of your organization a unique
anonimized election key.  The key is just a random number, it contains
no encrypted information about the member.

<p>Once election day come around, you change the state of your
election to 'Voting'.  Members can now use their unique anonymous
election key to submit their ballot, using the secure SSL protocol
implemented by their browser.

<p>Once the elections are over, you change the state of your election
to 'Closed'.  You can then download the complete list of anonymized
ballots.  So can anyone else, in order to verify that no
irregularities occurred.  In particular, each member can verify that
their vote was correctly recorded.

<p>Because Ballot-Box is open source, you don't need to sign up to run
an election.  Ballot-Box uses your existing Google Account (also know
as Gmail Account).  (Voters don't need an account at all.  You need a
Google Account only to <i>run</i> an election.)

<p>Here's what you can do{% if user %}:
{% else %}
(these links will ask you to log in first):
{% endif %}

<ul>
  <li><a href="/create">Create your own election<a>
  <li><a href="/elections">List your existing elections</a>
</ul>

{% if user %}
<p>You are logged in as <b>{{user}}</b> -- <a href="{{logout}}">log out</a>
{% else %}
<p>You are not logged in -- <a href="{{login}}">log in</a>
{% endif %}
